Publications de Arianna Marchioro

Membrane Potential Fluctuations and Water Asymmetry on Plasma Cell and Model Lipid Membranes: Origins, Implications and Properties

Arianna Marchioro, Bryan Zhi Li, Sylvie Roke, Orly Bagunu Tarun, Iwona Swiderska, Maksim Eremchev, David Roesel, Seonwoo Lee, Mischa Samuel Flór

Membrane potential fluctuations have previously been detected using second harmonic (SH) water imaging on neuronal cells and model lipid bilayer membranes. We report that such fluctuations are also visible when membrane potential-sensitive fluorophores are ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Does the ionic distribution in the electrical double layer modify second harmonic scattering?

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Bingxin Chu

Surface-specific nonlinear optical techniques are ideally suited to investigate the complex structure of aqueous interfaces. For colloidal particles dispersed in aqueous solutions, interfacial properties can be retrieved with angle-resolved second harmonic ...

AIP Publishing2024

Evolution of the electrical double layer with electrolyte concentration probed by second harmonic scattering

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Bingxin Chu, Marie Bischoff

Investigating the electrical double layer (EDL) structure has been a long-standing challenge and has seen the emergence of several sophisticated techniques able to probe selectively the few molecular layers of a solid/water interface. While a qualitative e ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

A discrepancy of 10(7) in experimental and theoretical density detection limits of aerosol particles by surface nonlinear light scattering

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Size dependence of second-harmonic scattering from nanoparticles: Disentangling surface and electrostatic contributions

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Bingxin Chu

Polarimetric angle-resolved second-harmonic scattering (AR-SHS) is an all-optical tool enabling the study of unlabeled interfaces of nano-sized particles in an aqueous solution. As the second harmonic signal is modulated by interference between nonlinear c ...

AIP Publishing2023

Water Orientation at the Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticle Interface: A Probe of Surface pKa Values

Arianna Marchioro, Marie Bischoff

The acid-base properties of surfaces significantly influence catalytic and (photo)electrochemical processes. Estimation of acid dissociation constants (pKa values) for colloids is commonly performed through electroanalytical techniques or spectroscopic met ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Second Harmonic Scattering Reveals Ion-Specific Effects at the SiO2 and TiO2 Nanoparticle/Aqueous Interface

Arianna Marchioro, Marie Bischoff

Ion-specific effects play a crucial role in controlling the stability of colloidal systems and regulating interfacial processes. Although mechanistic pictures have been developed to explain the electrostatic structure of solid/water colloidal interfaces, i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Surface Potential and Interfacial Water Order at the Amorphous TiO2 Nanoparticle/Aqueous Interface

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Marie Bischoff

Colloidal nanoparticles exhibit unique size-dependent properties differing from their bulk counterpart, which can be particularly relevant for catalytic applications. To optimize surface-mediated chemical reactions, the understanding of the microscopic str ...

2020

Mapping Electrochemical Heterogeneity at Gold Surfaces: A Second Harmonic Imaging Study

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Igor Nahálka

Designing efficient catalysts requires correlating surface structure and local chemical composition with reactivity on length scales from nanometers to tens of microns. While much work has been done on this structure/function correlation on single crystals ...

2020

Imaging the Heterogeneity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Gold Electrodes Operando: Activity is Highly Local

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Igor Nahálka

Understanding the mechanism of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the oxidative half of electrolytic water splitting, has proven challenging. Perhaps the largest hurdle has been gaining experimental insight into the active site of the electrocatalyst use ...

2020

Surface Characterization of Colloidal Silica Nanoparticles by Second Harmonic Scattering: Quantifying the Surface Potential and Interfacial Water Order

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Cornelis Ulrich Lütgebaucks, Marie Bischoff

The microscopic description of the interface of colloidal particles in solution is essential to understand and predict the stability of these systems, as well as their chemical and electrochemical reactivity. However, this description often relies on the u ...

2019

Surface chemistry of silica particles in aqueous solution

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Optical label- and model-free probing of the surface potential of nanoscale silica particles in aqueous solution

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Cornelis Ulrich Lütgebaucks

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Dynamics of Interfacial Charge Transfer States and Carriers Separation in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy Study

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Arianna Marchioro, Ahmad Ajdar Zadeh Oskouei, Arun Aby Paraecattil

Electron injection from a photoexcited molecular sensitizer into a wide-bandgap semiconductor is the primary step toward charge separation in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). According to the current understanding of DSSCs functioning mechanism, charges ...

American Chemical Society2015

Dynamics of Interfacial Electron Transfer from Betanin to Nanocrystalline TiO2: The Pursuit of Two-Electron Injection

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Arianna Marchioro

We report spectroelectrochemical and transient absorption spectroscopic studies of electron injection from the plant pigment betanin (Bt) to nanocrystalline TiO2. Spectroelectrochemical experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used ...

American Chemical Society2015

Kinetics of the Regeneration by Iodide of Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Titania

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Joël Teuscher, Julien Alexandre Andres, Arianna Marchioro, Peng Wang

Regeneration of dye sensitizer molecules by reducing species contained in the electrolyte is a key mechanism in liquid dye-sensitized solar cells because it competes kinetically with a detrimental charge recombination process. Kinetics of the reduction by ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Two-electron photo-oxidation of betanin on titanium dioxide and potential for improved dye-sensitized solar energy conversion

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Arianna Marchioro

The plant pigment betanin is investigated as a dye-sensitizer on TiO2 with regard to its potential to undergo two- electron oxidation following one-photon excitation. Electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical and transient absorption measurements provide evi ...

SPIE2014

Interfacial Charge Transfer Dynamics in Solid-State Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells

Arianna Marchioro

EPFL2014

Unravelling the mechanism of photoinduced charge transfer processes in lead iodide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Arianna Marchioro, Thomas Moehl

Lead halide perovskites have recently been used as light absorbers in hybrid organic–inorganic solid-state solar cells, with efficiencies as high as 15% and open-circuit voltages of 1 V. However, a detailed explanation of the mechanisms of operation within ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Effect of Posttreatment of Titania Mesoscopic Films by TiCl4 in Solid- State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Time-Resolved Spectroscopy Study

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Arianna Marchioro, Angela Punzi, Amalie Dualeh

Post-treatment of mesoporous titanium dioxide films by TiCl4 solutions is commonly applied during the fabrication of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSCs), as this operation markedly improves the performance of the photovoltaic device. The effect ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012